Packaging CPAN modules for Fedora, the Oslo QA Hackathon, CPAN::Porters

[Gabor Szabo]

On Thu, Apr 3, 2008 at 11:19 PM, Jan Pazdziora <jpazdziora at redhat.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 03, 2008 at 10:46:35PM +0300, Gabor Szabo wrote:
>  >
>  > Now I am here in Oslo, the QA Hackathon where I would like to work on this
>  > is going to start tomorrow evening so I started to look at this.
>  >
>  > The above page only gives me a list of perl package names. There is no
>  > version number of
>  > the perl packages and I don't know to witch version of Fedora and Red
>  > Hat do they belong to.
>  >
>  > I checked the source code of the code that is supposed to fetch the
>  > data and generate the reports
>  > and as I can see it is now trying to download the files from
>  >
>  > http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/6/i386/os/repodata/
>  >
>  >
>  > There seem to be some xml files describing the modules and as I can
>  > see I have already
>  > written a partial parser for them....
>  > http://search.cpan.org/dist/Parse-Fedora-Packages/
>  >
>  >
>  > The problem is that they are only up to Fedora 6 and if I am right the
>  > latest is 8.
>  > So where is the data for the newer version?
>
>  The repo at
>
>  http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/releases/8/Fedora/i386/os/repodata/
>
>  is probably what you are looking for, for Fedora 8.
>
>  For updates (released since Fedora 8 GA), the repo at
>
>  http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/updates/8/i386/repodata/
>
>  can be used.
>
>  I hope I'm answering the question you are asking, ;-)

Yes, that seems to be the one I was looking for.

Now a few more questions:

Would this one be the same for the development (soon to be 9) version?
http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/development/i386/os/repodata/


Are there similar repository for RedHat releases?


Gabor